Pete Doherty's manager jailed after hit and run crash which left pedestrian in a coma

Crash: Andrew Boyd, the manager of Pete Doherty, was jailed for 12 months

The manager of rock star Pete Doherty was jailed for 12 months today for a hit and run crash which left a 43-year-old man with severe brain injuries.

Andrew Boyd, 42, of Camden, London, had admitted a string of motoring
offences including dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of
an accident and driving without a licence or insurance.

He was told that he would be eligible for release on licence in six months.

Ipswich Crown Court heard that 43-year-old Chris Corder, of Hadleigh, Suffolk, suffered 'catastrophic' brain injuries and had been left in a coma after smash.

Prosecutor Steven Dyble said Boyd had been driving Mr Doherty's Daimler when he hit Mr Corder, who had been delivering local newsletters in Hadleigh, in September 2009.

He said Boyd's four-year-old son had been in the back of the car during the incident, and told the court that police found the car in a body repair shop in London.

When Boyd arrived at court a member of Mr Corder's family called him 'scum'. Mr Corder's sister Jennie, said after the hearing that the sentence was 'nothing'.

'I really would have liked him to get a longer sentence. Six months of somebody's life is nothing compared to what my brother is going to have to live through and what we are going to live through,' she said.

'My parents might never see my brother awake again and that's a horrible thought. I do not think that man has any remorse.'

Judge David Goodin told the court that Mr Corder had been left 'lying in the road with... devastating injuries'.

'You didn't stop,' the judge told Boyd. 'You drove off, having no idea exactly what you had left behind.'

Boyd, who was also banned from driving for three years and must retake his test to gain another licence, told police he had been distracted by his son's crying when he hit Mr Corder and had then panicked.

Chris Henley, for Boyd, said his client had made a 'series of very bad decisions' and felt 'remorse, regret and shame'.

He said Boyd accepted his 'financial obligations' towards the Corder family.

Mr Dyble said evidence showed that Mr Corder - who had a number of cleaning jobs - had just walked down a driveway and stepped into a road when he was hit.

He said there was no evidence that Boyd had been driving badly or dangerously at the time of the accident.

But he said Boyd's driving after he left the scene was dangerous - and a number of motorists told police that Boyd drove at speed, on the wrong side of the road and appeared not be in control of the car.

Mr Dyble said the Daimler had been spotted on a police camera and then traced to Doherty and to Boyd.

He told the court that Boyd had been convicted of drink-driving in 2000 and banned for 15 months, then lost his licence two years ago after a speeding conviction.

Mr Dyble said Boyd had completed a ban imposed after that conviction but had not reapplied for his licence.

Doherty, the former Libertines member and Babyshambles frontman, has been accused of allowing Boyd to drive a car without insurance.

His case is due to be heard before magistrates in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on March 11.

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Pete Doherty's manager jailed after hit and run crash which left pedestrian in a coma